Book of the week - a festive tale from Katie Fforde!

21 December 2016

... and there are many to choose from! Katie is one of our most prolific novel writers where romance combines with relationship drama and usually incorporates several story strands in this collection of short stories brought together for the first time - think Love Actually. Kind of. In true Fforde style, A Christmas Feast features an unlikely Scottish hero and heroine coupling - at the start of their tale anyway, and goes on to show how conflict leads to closeness and eventually - we are never let down - the big hook up! I liked the chef storyline too. But I have to admit the narrator does several annoying things with the ends of words with spat-out consonants and very irritating male voices. It's when the narration takes you out of the story that it starts to irk me, and sadly this one did it quite early on. It's hard to picture a hunky Scot when he sounds like Fraser from Dad's Army on a bad day.

Anyway, the novel itself rises above the problems with the narration, (check out the audio here to see what I mean - you may like it, and that's fine too) and is a great Christmassy read!

Get the Christmas Feast on amazon here. And look out for Katie's other festive tales.

Deb's Big Cover Reveal

If you missed it elsewhere, here's the new cover for the upcoming updated version of Till the Fat Lady Slims, Break free from Food Prison (2017 version) being released by Choc Lit to bookshops (to order) end of January. Am quite excited as it's more autobiographical than ever before, with many new parts to help elucidate why Freedom Eating worked for me. Get it here on Amazon on pre-order.

other news -

- Christmassy stories from Pan Macmillan Here are some more choices to get you in the festive mood ready for Next Sunday! here.

Beginners’ Guide And if you’re a complete beginner and want to self-publish, my basic guide can be found here - beginner's tips for self-publishing - a summary of info, sites and links to help you on your way. Including my guest blog on prestigious industry website, TheCreativePenn.com, Go here to read more.

Archives Don’t forget to check out the other archives (to the left) for even more fabulous hints, tips, links and blogs.

‘When Dreams Return’ (2014) – spooky romantic short story – when Chelle’s pal Sara gets her to conjure up her ideal man with a full moon magic spell, she gets more than she bargained for… also appears in Hocus Pocus anthology.

Well a January date has been set and the book is on its way to the printers, ready for the New Year New You bookshop frenzy (lol) and Choc Lit are aiming to get it in WHSmith Travel as they did last year with my first novel Take a Chance on Me.